THE daughter of a pensioner killed in a car crash today welcomed the conviction of the driver responsible for her father's death.

THE daughter of a pensioner killed in a car crash today welcomed the conviction of the driver responsible for her father's death.

A jury at Birmingham Crown Court found Rayhan Miah guilty of causing the death of 83-year-old Ronald Gibson by dangerous driving.

Remanding him in custody to January 8, Judge Trevor Faber told Miah - who has previous convictions for speeding and careless driving - a prison sentence was "absolutely inevitable".

Outside court, Mr Gibson's daughter Valerie said the guilty verdict was a relief, and that she wanted people to learn that speeding took lives.

David Jones, prosecuting, said that before the accident in Kings Road, Tyseley, on December 17 last year one witness heard the "screaming" noise, of Miah's Mondeo which he believed was travelling at about 60mph.

He said Miah went on the wrong side of the road and tried to come back but lost control, ploughing into the pensioner's Rover.

The force of the impact was so great that Miah's Mondeo spun 180 degrees and demolished a chain fence following the collision.

Mr Gibson, a former car worker from Ward End, suffered fractured ribs and a fractured thigh bone as a result of the accident and died on Christmas Day following medical complications.

Miah, 24, of Poplar Road, Sparkhill, had denied the charge, claiming he had been travelling at just above the 30mph speed limit when the accident happened.

He said the car he was driving was new but denied "showing off" to two friends who were passengers.

Afterwards, Ms Gibson said: "I want people to know that speeding does kill. It is unnecessary and it is usually innocent people who suffer the consequences.

"It has been harder because it was so sudden. He was 83 but still a very active man. When it is because of someone else's actions, it makes it so much harder to come to terms with," she said.